WASHINGTON — Early on, the dozen federal officials charged with defending America against the coronavirus gathered day after day in the White House Situation Room, consumed by crises. They grappled with how to evacuate the United States…

The first of many calls that night involved a 24-year-old man who had a fever, body aches and a cough that sounded like a cement mixer. While the Brooklyn paramedics took the man's fever — 103 degrees — they noticed frightening vitals…

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She's dead, and I'm quarantined. That's how the story ends. I keep going back over it in loops, trying to find a way to sweeten it, but nothing changes the facts. I wasn't there with her at the end. I didn't get to say goodbye. I don't even know…

For the most part, the concerned phone calls have stopped. “You're leaving right? You're going to …” and then they name some theoretically safer suburb or vacation community that I am not going to go to. But the calls have…